Mahomet - Founder of Islam

less than his humility, and steadfastness under discouragement. But beneath the weight of the marvellous the real man is almost buried. He has stood for so long with the mists of obscure imaginings about him that his true lineaments are almost impossible to reproduce. The Western world has alternated between the conception of him as a devil, almost Antichrist himself, and a .negligible impostor whose power is transient It has seldom troubled to look for the human energy that wrought out his successes, the faith that upheld them, and the enthusiasm that burned in the Prophet ...himself with a sombre flame, lighting his followers to prayer and conquest